Author Archives: Elizabeth Sturcken

Putting Mother Jones Walmart Article in Perspective

By | Bio | Published: March 26, 2012

In an article posted online this week, Mother Jones magazine makes a sweeping critique of Walmart’s efforts to reduce the environmental impacts created by its Chinese supply chain. Having been closely involved with Walmart on these and other sustainability initiatives since 2005, we’d like to offer EDF’s perspective on the story, and on what’s at [...]

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Walmart finds money in a shoebox

By | Bio | Published: January 30, 2012

Walmart’s The Green Room recently published a blog about shoeboxes. For a behemoth retailer like Walmart, one would think that worrying about shoeboxes isn’t high on its list of priorities. But this attention to detail is the kind of thing that makes environmental progress possible and Walmart effective. Scale In 2005, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) [...]

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Calling All Carbon Geeks: Walmart’s Greenhouse Gas Protocol Document Is Here!

By | Bio | Published: August 4, 2010

This past February, Walmart made a major commitment to reduce the carbon footprint from the lifecycle of its products, including its supply chain, by 20 million metric tons of carbon dioxide between now and 2015. This is equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of 3.8 million passenger vehicles. Today the project team that has [...]

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Creating Change above the Line – A Talk with Peter Senge

By | Bio | Published: June 29, 2010

EDF’s Corporate Partnerships team was just treated to some mind-expanding thinking at our annual retreat, courtesy of Peter Senge.  Peter is a senior lecturer at MIT, author of the widely-read systems-thinking book, The Fifth Discipline, founding Chairman of the Society for Organizational Learning, and recently the author of The Necessary Revolution, an in-depth study on [...]

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Show me the metrics! Walmart’s Sustainability Report Released

By | Bio | Published: May 11, 2010

This week, Walmart released its third sustainability report.  Since Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and our team in Bentonville, Arkansas, works daily with Walmart, we want to share our thoughts on the environmental portion of the report.  Because we don’t take money from Walmart – or any of our corporate partners – we can be candid [...]

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Why Walmart's Carbon Commitment Can Make Such a Difference

By | Bio | Published: February 25, 2010

Archimedes said "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth," when explaining the principle of levers. Leverage is the big news about Walmart’s announcement today. The company has committed to reducing 20 million metric tons of carbon pollution from its products’ lifecycle and supply chain over the next five years. That’s [...]

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Tune in Thursday for the latest on our work with Walmart

By | Bio | Published: February 24, 2010

As many of you know, we have been working with Walmart for the past several years to measurably reduce its environmental impact in the areas of global warming, packaging, plastic bag waste, agriculture, toxic materials while leveraging the power of its supply chain here and in China.

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Cool ideas (and, sadly, bluefin tuna) served up at Brainstorm Green

By | Bio | Published: April 24, 2009

Just returned from the Fortune Brainstorm: GREEN conference and thought this might be the perfect reason for me to write my first blog post: For the second year in a row, it was the best conference I've ever been to. What made it so great? The biggest single reason was the interesting and candid conversations [...]

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